| Lauri Lynnxe Murphy's "Strange Fruit" |
| Posted: September 23, 2009 | |||
 Remember the dearth of local artists invited to participate in the DNC's roster of officially sanctioned arts events sponsored by the office of the Mayor? Local artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has a solid inkling, her memory aided by the guerrilla antics of Boom, a hodgepodge of Denver artists who transformed a 24 foot rental truck into a mobile gallery that shadowed the city’s “Dialog City” events from which the locals were unfortunately snubbed as artistic collaborators. Seeing history about to repeat itself via the indeterminate nature of funding for local artists in the planning phases for Denver's new Biennial of the Americas next summer, Murphy is taking a proactive stance and turning to Kickstarter—a web-based portal for wanna-be arts VCs that matches up "aspiring da Vincis and Spielbergs with mini-Medicis" (NY Times)—as a way of raising funds for her public art project "Strange Fruit" (you can check out her proposed project at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnxe/strange-fruit-a-publicly-funded-public-art-instal.) Here's how it works: Murphy is seeking to raise $10k to fund the project—an installation commenting on the concept of genetically modified foods causing the plants around us to perhaps sprout eyes or snouts—and has created a Kickstarter proposal that describes the project and invites interested parties to make a donation and secure one of a variety of token gifts from the artist for their pledge (ala NPR begathons, but without the desperate pleading.) Gifts run the gamut from t-shirts to original works of art, but hurry up and pledge, as Murphy has set a deadline of December 14th to raise the funds. - KLH
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